[Remote] Senior Consultant Cyber Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deloitte is a leading professional services firm that focuses on technology and innovation. They are seeking a Senior Consultant in Cyber Engineering to support the Security Operations Center by addressing security concerns and maintaining operational support, while also developing threat detection and automation solutions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain ticket management and DevOps activity tracking to ensure accurate work intake, prioritization, and status reporting
• Monitor and communicate Microsoft product updates; assess and advise on impacts on the environment and customers
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and provide timely end-user support with clear follow-through and resolution documentation
• Create and maintain process documentation (runbooks, SOPs, workflows) to support consistent execution and knowledge transfer
• Maintain and enforce change control and peer review processes to promote quality, security, and auditability
• Threat detection development in Microsoft Sentinel and Defender platforms using KQL
• Align detection rules to current and emerging threats, leveraging external threat intelligence as appropriate
• Identify and remediate detection gaps using the MITRE ATT&CK framework, based on business risk and priorities
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity teams (e.g., Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Engineering) to ensure cross-team alignment and coverage
• Develop, tune, and support analytics/detection rules, including performance monitoring and optimization
• Develop, maintain, and optimize playbooks/notebooks, including operational reliability and performance
• Develop, maintain, and optimize Logic Apps, including operational reliability and performance
• Develop, maintain, and optimize workbooks and dashboards to support detection engineering and SOC visibility
• Support reporting needs tied to threat detection outcomes, metrics, and operational insights
• Define and document required fields per data source to enable effective detection and investigation
• Identify and remediate high-cost/expensive detections to improve signal-to-noise ratio and manage platform consumption
• Design, build, and support automation solutions that improve efficiency, consistency, and time-to-response across security operations
• Maintain strong SOC partnerships and provide support for SOC inquiries related to the Azure and Microsoft Defender portals, including troubleshooting and operational guidance

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business Administration
• Minimum 8 years of various technology experience
• Minimum 3 years' cyber security experience within SIEM Administration
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Sentinel, including building and tuning analytics rules, hunting queries, workbooks, automation, and managing the SIEM data model and workspace
• Strong KQL proficiency for threat hunting, detection logic, investigation, and telemetry analysis
• MS Sentinel SC-200 badge
• SOAR and automation experience, especially with Azure Logic Apps, playbooks, and integrations with ITSM or third-party APIs
• Cloud Fundamental Certificates
• Ability to communicate network security issues to peers and lower management
• Hands-on experience with Linux, working knowledge of multiple Cloud environments, Azure O365, and SOC processes
• An understanding of possible attack activities such as network probing/ scanning, DDOS, malicious code activity and possible abnormal activities, such as worms, Trojans, viruses, etc

Benefits

• You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
• Deloitte is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the recruiting process, please direct your inquiries to the Global Call Center (GCC) at [email protected].
• At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. [Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you.](https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/life-at-deloitte-benefits-and-rewards.html)
• Our inclusive culture empowers our people to be who they are, contribute their unique perspectives, and make a difference individually and collectively. It enables us to leverage different ways of thinking, ideas, and perspectives, and bring more creativity and innovation to help solve our clients' most complex challenges. This makes Deloitte one of the most rewarding places to work.
• From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to build new skills, take on leadership opportunities and connect and grow through mentorship. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career.

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